I was interested in the war part of ‘Star Wars,’ so I started reading about what it’s like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush. – Oscar Isaac
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I try not to think too much about an audience when I’m writing the first draft of a book – at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I’ve written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire. – Robin Wasserman
We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them. We re-read the books, but we’re still left wanting to know more. In my own case, it was ‘Great Expectations’ and Miss Havisham in particular. Luckily, writers have the option of making up the knowledge that reading doesn’t supply. – Ronald Frame
I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets. – Pete Fountain
I found many ways around my dyslexia, but I still have trouble transforming words into sounds. I have to memorize and rehearse before reading anything aloud to avoid embarrassing myself by mispronouncing words. – Philip Schultz
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn’t know enough about things. They haven’t been around enough – novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things – books like ‘How To Run a Company’ – I stopped reading novels. – Peter York
If I could offer but one helpful hint to young Hoosiers hoping to better their odds for success in life, I would simply note the importance of thoughtful reading. – Richard Lugar
I don’t believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it’s the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist ‘expresses’ himself. – Richard Rodgers
I’d love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone. – Rae Carson
I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don’t like books for children that deal with adult themes. – Philip Kerr
It took me nine years to get through the fourth grade. When I got into television commercials, I had to take a crash course in reading. I was 32 years old, and I couldn’t read the cue cards. – Rocky Graziano
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development – an insight came from that book. – Robert Reed
I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book! – Rachel Tucker
Reading ‘Youth in Revolt’ might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn’t do that very well. – Rob Thomas
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again. – Salman Rushdie
If you want to know why the towers of American capitalism are crumbling, I recommend reading ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’ by G. Edward Griffin. – Robert Kiyosaki
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book. – Robert M. Gates
I’m comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science. – Robert Kennedy, Jr.
I met Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley on the same day in 1968. I was sixteen at the time. Very exciting. They were reading at Armagh. One of my teachers brought me to meet them, introduced me, and I became friends with them. – Paul Muldoon
I’ve been obsessed with demons since reading ‘The Elfstones of Shannara’ and ‘Master of the Five Magics’ by Lyndon Hardy. – Peter V. Brett
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that’s important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55. – Robert Cormier
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. – Russell Banks
My first novel – the novel I wrote before ‘Midnight’s Children’ – feels, to me, now, very – I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I’m, you know, I’m happy for. – Salman Rushdie
